Rare Skull From Korea's Silla Kingdom Reconstructed

http://www.archaeology.org/news/4590-160621-korea-silla-skul ^ | Tuesday, June 21, 2016

[SunkenCiv]

[SunkenCiv]

[knarf]

Funny ... you don’t LOOK Asian ...

[knarf]

I just slipped over to a forensic reconstruction site (fascinating stuff) and the question arose ...

Has anyone ever reconstructed the skull of a known person, but didn't tell the reconstructor .... and compared the result ?

[bgill]

Alas, poor Yorick Son!

[r_barton]

It probably has more meat on its bones now than some North Koreans.

[Candor7]

Why its Kim Jong Un !

May he Rest in Peace not glowing in the dark from nuclear radiation.

[dp0622]

The skeleton, of a woman in her late 30s...

Wonder if she’s still available?

[SunkenCiv]

It never ends...

[SunkenCiv]

That happens with police forensic reconstruction all that time, I’m sure. The only ancient forensic reconstructions I’ve seen are some Late Kingdom Egyptians, the museum had their skulls layin’ around.

[Celtic Conservative]

A partial aside: Tell a Japanese individual that they are descended genetically from Koreans and watch them flip out. Matrilineal DNA confirmed this a few years ago. Still a lot of bad blood between Koreans, Chinese and Japanese. It predated WWII, but the war made things far worse.

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[Fred Nerks]

the shape of the skull is interesting:

Ancient woman comes alive

The new 3D reconstruction of the woman’s face shows a woman who had a longer skull than is currently typical in Korea. The woman’s head was dolicephalic, meaning her head length is more than 80 percent of its width. However, the team does not believe this was due to deliberate deformation, but was rather a natural variation within the population.

http://www.livescience.com/images/i/000/084/216/original/long-headed-woman-7.jpg?interpolation=lanczos-none&fit=inside|*:1400

http://www.livescience.com/images/i/000/084/214/original/long-headed-woman-5.jpg?interpolation=lanczos-none&fit=inside|*:1400

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks FN!

[17th Miss Regt]

Does this come from the Ministry of Silla Walks?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Yes.

And the answer is they can get pretty close.

[cloudmountain]

It probably has more meat on its bones now than some North Koreans.

The ravages of communism and a despotic madman. Those souls won't have to spend any time in purgatory...they're doing it now.

[Brookhaven]

The Japanese also share 75% of their DNA with pumpkins. No joke, it's true.

Of course, ALL humans share 75% of their DNA with pumpkins. We are all 3/4 vegetable (or is pumpkin a fruit?).

[kitchen]

That's a question better left to the Boulder Vegetable Rights Association.

[familyop]

That there silly culture skull looks normal enough—maybe even more normal than a lot of Prussian skulls.

[familyop]

...maybe even more normal than many sloped, Hunnish skulls directly in the far east.

;-)